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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Strategic Change"”.
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Sustainable strategic change in practice
… looks at what Head Teachers are doing to make strategic change sustainable. It seeks to determine the ways in which senior leaders are using strategic approaches to build in systems and procedures that will secure improvement over the longer term alongside the short term leadership and …
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The role of intervention in strategic change
… to ensure that the project and corporation strategic aspects are adequately considered. The method has been developed in a pragmatic manner such that it can be implemented by a practising manager.
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Strategic change management in ship design and construction
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1998.
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Exploring the links between strategic change and organizational outcomes
… the links between managerial attempts at major strategic and organizational changes (referred to throughout the thesis as strategic change) and key organizational outcomes. The opening chapter reviews the literature on strategic organizational change, particularly focussing on models of …
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Effective Leadership during Strategic Change: An Investigative Study of Abu Dhabi Police
… Dhabi Police (ADP) has gone through significant changes over the past decade in its progress towards modernisation. During the course of the change programme the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government has sponsored the work of ADP and has encouraged many projects. The purpose of this research is …
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Strategic change in the UK railway network through reorganization and major projects
… will be used to assess the impact of the key strategic initiatives of recent times – Nationalization (1947), the Beeching Axe (1963), Privatization (1993) – and also the effects of various major projects – e.g. High Speed Trains (1970s), the Channel Tunnel (1994) and the Total Route …
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A Resource-Based Perspective of Growth Through Strategic Change: A Longitudinal View
The study demonstrates that a firm must build a resource path that can be altered based upon the direction of environmental variation. The path direction is theoretically linked to the concept of a resource based life cycle. It is interesting to conjecture if this resource-based life cycle path …
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Overcoming middle management resistance to strategic change : design for environment (DFE) at Xerox
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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An exploratory study of emotional autonomy of employees within the context of strategic change
… concept of emotional autonomy with respect to strategic change in two financial organisations. Based on the Lacan's psychoanalytical theories, emotional autonomy is conceptualised here in terms of subjection, detachment and individuation - subjective phases that a subject goes through in …
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Shaping the future through strategic change management framework in the UAE Law Enforcement Agency
Change is an essential part of life as well as that of any organisation. Change may be undertaken for different purposes, but the need for improvements tend to be the overarching aim for change. While most private organisations utilise change management model to influence the process, limited …
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Strategic change in the pharmaceutical industry 1992-2002: evolution and coevolution of firms' grand strategies
… that when exploring how firms’ strategies changed during a period of significant industry change it is important to understand processes of both strategy evolution and coevolution in order to understand the dynamics of strategic change. This led to the research question ‘How did the …
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College and University Executive Leadership: The Impact of Demography on the Propensity for Strategic Change
… of higher education and their propensity for strategic change. Previous research in the areas of strategic change, group decision making, and higher education was drawn from in this study. Statistically significant relationships were discovered the demographic background of executive …
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How do leaders, in a multiple leader context, give sense to the same strategic change?
For organisational leaders, managing change is a primary management activity (By, 2005). Reflecting this significance as a management function, there is now a substantial body of literature and many dynamic models and ‘recipes’ advising managers how to deal with change. While models and recipes …
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Implementing strategic change of downsizing as an investment strategy: A study of UK based firms
… research project treats downsizing as a form of strategic change and focuses on how integrated human resource practices and role of change agent can contribute to the success of downsizing strategy. By success, it is meant here the level of return earned by investing in downsizing strategy. This …
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Strategic change and the coevolution of industry-university relationships : evidence from the forest products industry
… tracing the origin of the relationship and its changes over time as the firm's strategies evolve. We analyze the strategic trajectories of nine European and North American forest products companies, distilling four generic strategies, and linking those strategies to each company's university …
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Adaptation vs selection: an examination of the impact of deregulation on strategic change in U.S. banks
… examines competing theories based on the strategic choice and organizational ecology perspectives by investigating strategic change in the banking industry preceding and following interest rate and product deregulation of financial institutions in the early 1980's. Adaptation theory …
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Environmental turbulence and its impact on strategic change and organisational culture : the case of the Queensland Rugby Union
… the influence of environmental turbulence on the change process occurring throughout the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) during the 1990s, and to analyse its impact on that organisation's strategic direction and organisational culture. Within these broad parameters, the specific aims were: first, to …
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Participation in and employee attitude toward organizational change : a case study on strategic change at George Pearson Centre
… Society (B.C. Rehab)recently approved a strategic plan which, when implemented, will change the organization's delivery of services to British Columbians with disabilities. In addition to a review of the literature to determine the factors influencing employees’ participation in the …
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